I understand that a landowner as landlord has more power, and I understand that because everything is processed through the filter that is me it is natural for an individual to think that he or she knows better and is better, but how does this justify the venom quite frequently seen in evictions, lease negotiations, and other subservient bureaucracies within the landlord / leaseholder relationship. Lives are disrupted for the satisfaction and/or convenience of a tyrant. The same can be said for many (perhaps all) other decisive, inarguable power structures but there (from experience) seems to be an amplified, hyperbolized ferocity in a landlord's edicts.

I recently bought a house and though I have frequently railed against “owning the land”, I find myself more comfortable, less anxious, and less afraid not having the specter of a monster - (one able to gobble me up and spit me out elsewhere) - hovering over me. As a leaseholder you expect it as a way of life, but now looking at it from the outside and currently seeing more than one family member being gobbled up and/or snacked upon, I am even more horrified by the inhumanity we allow.

I am in good company.